Beshear defended his veto in a statement saying the bill allowed "too much government interference in personal healthcare issues and rips away the freedom of parents to make medical decisions for their children." He added that it would also cause educators and school administrators to "listen in on student conversations" and "confront" or "question" parents over what they hear. "I am also vetoing Senate Bill 150 because my faith teaches me that all children are children of God and Senate Bill 150 will endanger the children of Kentucky," he said, before stressing it was "important" to improve access to gender-affirming care, and predicting the bill would lead to an increase in suicide among Kentucky's youth.
The last sentence is something I’ve heard quite a bit, that the so called transgender youth commit suicide if they don’t get hormone shots and surgery.
Liberals set up the debate , that if you oppose these transgender treatments, you are condemning youth to suicide
“too much government interference in personal healthcare issues and rips away the freedom of parents to make medical decisions for their children.”
But it often is not a well thought out essential medical decisions. It is very simply a money maker for doctors and institutions. This means there is no incentive to find out if a diagnosis of gender dysphoria is truly warranted. It certainly is never essential that hormone replacement or surgery be done at such a young age.
Going through puberty has to be essential to physical, emotional, and mental health or we humans would go directly from pre-puberty to adulthood. But we were designed otherwise. Blocking that can’t be beneficial and is likely dangerous.